How can I join a community?

To join a community, you must either create one or receive an invitation to join one created by someone else. The requestor will be set as the initial coordinator of the community. Following community creation, coordinators can invite contributors as well as additional coordinators. Invitations are sent via email. If you’d like to join a particular community, reach out to one of its coordinators with your email address and ask to be invited. Then, watch for an email with the subject line “Invitation to join a NestWatch community,” and follow the join link included in the email.

A screenshot from the NestWatch website showing an invitation for a NestWatch Community. The text below the normal website header reads: You have been invited to join the following NestWatch Community: Hundred Acre Wood Community. This is a community for all the residents of the Wood to record the bird nests they find. You are currently signed in to your Cornell Lab of Ornithology account using the following: Username ChristopherR. If you would like to join this community with a different Cornell Lab account, please sign out of your current account and sign in with the account you would like to use. Return to your email invitation, click on the invitation link, and accept. There are two buttons below this text that read "Accept invitation using 'ChristopherR'" and "Sign out and sign in with a different account." To the right is a sidebar that reads "What are NestWatch Communities? NestWatch Communities allow participants to share in the monitoring of nests with others while using your own accounts. Learn more about how communities work." There is a button that reads "Learn more about how communities work!"

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